Method for Acquiring Video Data by Using Camera Mobile Phone as Computer Camera

US20080151058A1Inactive Publication Date: 2008-06-26LENOVO (BEIJING) CO LTD
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Current Assignee / Owner
LENOVO (BEIJING) CO LTD
Publication Date
2008-06-26
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

The present invention provides a method for acquiring video data by using a camera mobile phone as a computer camera, which comprises: step A: the camera mobile phone is virtualized as a video-capturing device in a computer; step B: the mobile phone virtualized as the video-capturing device in step A is selected as current video-capturing device of the computer; step C: the computer sends a command for acquiring video data to the mobile phone selected as the current video-capturing device, and said mobile phone acquires video data according to the received command and transmits to the computer via wireless connection; and step D: the computer receives the video data transmitted from the mobile phone. The invention can achieve a resource sharing between the mobile phone and the computer, make full use of their functions, save the interface resource of the computer and enable the mobile phone to break down the capacity limitation during the acquisition of video data.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of Invention

[0002] The present invention relates to the field of computer application technology, and in particular to a method for acquiring video data by using a camera mobile phone as a computer camera.

[0003] 2. Description of Prior Art

[0004] At present, computer cameras have been widely employed in various fields of actual application. For example, real-time capture of image can be implemented via a computer camera so as to perform video chatting or web conferencing with a computer, and a real-time monitoring of the environment can also be carried out on a computer via an attached computer camera.

[0005] In the prior art, a computer camera as a separate video-capturing device is required to be inserted into a USB interface of a computer such that the computer is enabled to obtain video images from the computer camera. Accordingly, the computer camera itself has to occupy a USB interface individually, which further strains the severely limited...

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